Author(s): David Machin (Editor); Simon Day (Editor); Sylvan Green (Editor)

Medical and Nursing

Now published in its Second Edition, the Textbook of ClinicalTrials offers detailed coverage of trial methodology indiverse areas of medicine in a single comprehensive volume.

Praise for the First Edition:

"... very useful as an introduction to clinical research, orfor those planning specific studies within therapeutic or diseaseareas." BRITISH JOURNAL OF SURGERY, Vol. 92, No. 2,February 2005

The book?s main concept is to describe the impact ofclinical trials on the practice of medicine. It separates theinformation by therapeutic area because the impact of clinicaltrials, the problems encountered, and the numbers of trials inexistence vary tremendously from specialty to specialty. Thesections provide a background to the disease area and generalclinical trial methodology before concentrating on particularproblems experienced in that area.  Specific examples are usedthroughout to address these issues.

The Textbook of Clinical Trials, SecondEdition: 

• Highlights the various ways clinical trials have influenced thepractice of medicine in many therapeutic areas
• Describes the challenges posed by those conducting clinicaltrials over a range of medical specialities and allied fields
• Additional therapeutic areas are included in this SecondEdition to fill gaps in the First Edition as the numberand complexity of trials increases in this rapidly developingarea
• Newly covered or updated in the Second Edition: generalsurgery, plastic surgery, aesthetic surgery, palliative care,primary care, anaesthesia and pain, transfusion, wound healing,maternal and perinatal health, early termination, organtransplants, ophthalmology, epilepsy, infectious disease,neuro-oncology, adrenal, thyroid and urological cancers, as well asa chapter on the Cochrane network

An invaluable resource for pharmaceutical companies, theTextbook of Clinical Trials, Second Edition appealsto those working in contract research organizations, medicaldepartments and in the area of public health and health sciencealike.